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.Bully l?, E923. v W. @FLERCH TIRE CONSTRUCTION Fim INVENTOR.

Y Mmmm @Leech By I ATTORNEY' Patented l?, ll923., l .I

nutren stares Wml'ilI/l G.' LERCHGVAKRON, @m0, ASSIGNOR T0 THE EINEM TERE @t PANE?, F MOGDORE, OHIO, A @@RlP-ORATIUN 0F H.

ariannal corr- TERE CONSTRUCTION.

applicati@ ma rune 2e, 1921. sei-iai no. Matoo.

t To all whom it may concern. l

' of which the following is a specication.

ln the ordinary and commonly practised methods of building pneumatic tires, it is lll customary to place immediately below the tread portion of the tire and between the tread and the cushion, a layer of fabric which is known in` the art as the breaker strip. The purpose and function of this breaker strip is the subject ot some question in the art, butit seems to be an essential feature in the manufacture of tires. The

brealrerlstrip is, in the ordinary and Y commonly practised construction, a strip or loosely woven fabric laidA about the periphery ot' the tire, having been first coated or saturated with an adhesive rubber compound. lt serves to unite the tread to the cushion and thus to. the carcass of the tire and it also serves additional functions in transmitting vand distributing the blows from the tread of the tire .to the carcass in such a Way that the impacts received in the service are distributed over a wider area of the carcass and ply separation is prevented. 'lhe breaker also serves in a way to vtransmit the torque from the tread of the tire to the body thereof and increase the adhesionbetween the tread and the remainder oit the tire so that tread separation is prevented.

As stated above, the ordinary torni ot breaker strip is a loosely Woven, open mesh tabric, composed ol heavy threads or cords woven at right angles to each other. The breaker strip has little strength ot its own and therefore, under stress and strain 'may, and often does allow the cushion to roll up and by generating lrictional heat 'to disintegrate, and While it performs its tunc tions vas set forthl above, in a more or less satisfactory Way, l have -'ound that a radically dierent and novel torni or breaker 4strip will perform the tunctions fl-the old .brealrer ,strip in much better fashion than Formerly obtained and will possess additional advantages. For this purpose l have devised a brealrer strip in which there .are contained a plurality of parallel cords without any substantial cross threads, 'which they form tvvo layers oi parallel corde,

cords may beV arranged in a single layer or a plurality of layers in the position ot the breaker strip, the cords in the adjacent layers, if more than one is used, being arranged at right anglesto each other. ln this way the tread is united to the body ot the tire, the cords having great strength across the periphery ol the tire, whereas the ordinary breaker strip7 has but very little, the blows are transmitted and distributed and the torque is transmitted in an (Btl entirely dill'erent manner than has been present in tires constructed. with the old form of breaker strip. The tread is more securely fastened to the cushion and tread separation'is prevented, because of the new forni of fabric insert which replaces the breaker strip, because it possesses considerable strength and for other reasons, it therefore adds "to the service of the tire.

ln the drawings accompanying this applicatiomfthere is shown one form el my in vention. it beingrunderstood that when the principles thereof have been explained, there may be other forms in which the in# vention can be carried out and l am not vlimited tothe enact construction shown.

' Fig. 1 is a cross section ol a tire constructed in accordance with my invention, having the `improved fabric insert replace the breaker strip.

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary vievv or the brecher, broken away to show the construction.

A tire ot the usual construction, except insofar as my improvements have been applied thereto, is shown in Fig. il, in which the tread is indicated by the numeral l, the cushion by the numeral 2, side Walls .at 3, the carcass or body of the tire at l and the beads at 5. The body ol vthe tire is -termed by a plurality oi layers oi rubberized fabric, or any preferred type, and the cushion 2 is a layer of high grade resilient placed around the periphery o' the tire and between the carcass ot the tire and the tread.

The fabric insert S is shown at the point usually'occupied by the common breaker strip?. The fabric insertA or breaker strip09 is preferably 'composed of? tvvo layers of arallel cords 7 and 8, the cords in the two ayers being arranged diagonally with respe-ct to the plane ot the tire but at right angles with respect-to each other, whereby' ai f ico

lll-D angles to eachother, but not intersecting.

The cords forthis purpose may be obtained by the use ofthe ordinary cord tire fabric which comprises parallel cords arranged closely together' and held in position by minute crossing threads arranged at spaced intervals in the cords which threads serve merely to hold the cords in position. By arranging the cords in parallel relation as has been described, no friction is developed inthe fabric insert during the running of the tire. While the diagonal.positioning of the cords is preferred, other arrangements may be used, the angle of the cords being maintained so that traction or torque will vbe transmitted by them from the tread tothe carcass of the tire.

Preparatory' to assembling in the tire, the cords constituting the fabric insert are thoroughly saturated and coated with a rubber eompound,'so that they are completely embedded and surrounded therein and the two layers of. cords are separated from each other by the coating of rubber. The outer of the two layers may be slightly narrower y than the inner layerias shown in the drawing, although this is not essential;

It has been found that tires-made with the new 'form of fabric insert described herein, give remarkably better results than can be obtained by the use of the old form of breaker strip. The tread is securely held 1 to the body of the tire and does not separate as often happens with the old form of breaker strip. Ply separation is avoided v'and' increased mileage is obtained and the breaker stripadds to -the strength of the tire. i

Claims: Y l. A tire construction comprising, a carcass composed lof a plurality of layers of rubberized.fabric, a. layer of rubber of a highly resilient character constituting a cushion,` an outer layer vof tougher rubber constituting a tread, and a layer of cords interposed between the cushion and tread, said last named layer being composed of a 'plurality of parallel cords arranged in close relation to one another and extending in a diagonal position with respect to the central plane of the tire,- whereby traction is transmitted from the treadto the carcass without generating friction within the and 8 interposed between the tread and the cushion, said cord layers being arranged as shown and described with the cords in oppositely arranged diagonal positions with respect to the central plane of the tire,

whereby the functions of a breaker strip are performed by the layers of cords without frictional engagement of the cords with one another, vwithout loss of traction between the tread and the carcass, and without restriction of the circumferential contraction or expansion of the tire.

wiLLrAM G. LERCH; 

